Stories from Saturday, December 24, 2022

Four Sikeston Department of Safety officers graduated from law enforcement academy last week while another four officers have completed the fire academy. Jonathan Hayes, Michael Spies, Christopher Essary and Dakota Harrington graduated Thursday night from the SEMO Law Enforcement Academy and now will be placed with field training officers in patrol and begin their on-the-job training...

Has anyone talked to local vets and gotten their opinions on what would be best for Rex? He is a member of the Juden family. What would you do to keep your family together if someone was trying to split you up? Anyone who has animals whether it be a dog, cat or guinea pig would put up a fight and rightly so. Get over yourselves and do the right thing for the dog. Just because you don’t like that Mr. Juden changed jobs. You can’t blame a man for doing what is good for his family.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David): to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child...

Editor’s note: For nearly 40 years we have shared the following story with readers every Christmas. The words of Francis P. Church will ring true today as they did more than 100 years ago when first written. In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon became worried when her friends told her there was no Santa Claus. Her father advised her to write to the New York Sun to find out the truth, and the reply by Francis P. Church became a classic:...